Posted on 11/06/2012 6:22:14 AM PST by CWW
Post your Michigan morning voting observations here!!
We're particularly interested in the dem district turnout, e.g., Detroit, etc.
Grand Rapids here!
Haven’t voted yet. This will be the first presidential election where I didn’t vote at dawn. 4 years ago it was all O. Totally a different vibe where I live, which is a very liberal central area of conservative GR.
The ballot measures will bring the right out big time hopefully to counter Detroit.
I expect Mitt to take the city in a walk.
Those "lied up" people were the CommiecRATs.
Quite the Freudian slip!
Oh, two folks did not know how to use the paper feeder - we may be seeing voter s that normally do not bother.
Honestly, I think she was just overwhelmed... there was a line out the door, down the hall and outside into the parking lot.... I have NEVER seen that big a crown at 7:00 am.. I was in line behind a very nice lady of color wearing a fubo hoodie.....
I think she was the only fubo voter in the bunch...
Voted Precinct 7, Trenton, at the KofC hall. I’m retired Navy, and my wife, who’s home on leave, is an active Soldier. We waited about 25 minutes to vote, which is a BIG change from 2008, when nobody was in line. This morning, about 0830, it snaked through the hall and the parking lot had plenty of vehicles in it. By the time we left, the line was down by 3/4ths, though the voting location chairman said the line would be up greatly at the lunch hour and then from about 1500 until the polls closed.
I spoke to several people while the spousal unit and I stood in line and all of them said they were there to vote Romney/Ryan and against Proposals 2 through 6 (they were going to vote to strengthen the emergency manager law), proving they’d all done their homework. The couple directly behind us had a son in the Air Force (stationed at Mountain Home AFB in Idaho) who called them while we waited in line and they discussed how many people the son knew who were voting Romney/Ryan.
The voting location chairman, a genuinely nice man, spoke to all of us to let us know that in the future we could vote absentee and just check off “not at home” as the reason for why we were voting absentee. I spoke up and asked him if he thought that citizens shouldn’t have at least a few responsibilities, such as voting in person when able to, instead of just mailing in a subject-to-vote-fraud ballot and everybody around me agreed with my position, and vocally at that.
He got the message after hearing many of us remark that we were proud to come in and vote. We were all there on a mission and it had “priority over time,” as my Marines and I used to say (I started out my Navy career as a young Hospital Corpsman back in the late 70s) whenever we’d go out on patrol.
God bless everybody that votes today, and God bless America, the greatest nation on the face of the planet.
This is a very rural area without a large freeloader contingent. Not many Bronco Bamma voters here.
With the long ballot voting was slow. There still was 300 voters before I voted.
This will be a large turnout election.
This is why the Electoral College votes from each state should go district by district. Popular vote for all the Electoral College points undermines the whole friggin system!
Hazel Park was pretty heavy. But with Hazel Park, you never know. It’s dem country but also gun country. There could easily be a lot of Romney voters here.
Bronco Bama gets ‘lied up’ and ready every time he gives a speech. Well, every time he opens his mouth, really.
#355 in my precinct as of 1030. Poll worker says they have been BUSY. Steady stream of people coming in to cast ballots.
I was number 304 just before 11AM in Richland Township, which is Hemlock.
Mr. P called after he got to work, he passes Ingersoll Twp. hall on his way, it’s south of Midland and rural. The lot was full and there was a line out the door. He said he’s never seen that in all the years he’s been going by there on his way to work on election day - 22 years.
This is a Chik Fil-A Epic Save Our Country Silent Majority Speaks Up type of turnout.
Wow.
5 people is usually a line in my precinct but there were at least 30 people in line the whole time I was there.
This nation, and our state — except for Detroit/Flint/Saginaw — has always been center-right. It’s just that we let the little kids (AKA “liberal college students”) take over government because we talked ourselves into a sense of fatigue in 2008. I knew we’d had it when our candidate, John McCain, told a campaign rally, late in the election, “You have nothing to fear from a president Obama.” Sure, John: How’d that work out for you and for all of us?
I love John McCain to death, and he’s retired Navy like me and he SUFFERED MASSIVELY for his country as a POW, but what was he thinking back then? That his “honorable campaign” thing was going to work against viciously rabid liberal partisans? Well, now we have a chance to right the ship and put it back on a navigable course plot. And I think we will and that today’s election, at least nationwide and in the Electoral College, isn’t going to be all that close.
Michigan’s a bit tighter, but only because of Wayne/Macomb (I don’t see Oakland going to the Dems) and a couple of areas like Flint/Saginaw and the UofM neighborhoods. Like I said; we put government in the hands of liberal college students and their shabby radical-chic professors and look what we got in return. Romney could pull it off with Oakland and a strong out-state vote plus a decline in Dem enthusiasm in their stronghold areas. “The thrill is gone” for Barack Obama, to quote the immortal B.B. King. ;-)
In a deep red pocket of Macomb County.
Line out the door at 07:00.
Line out the door at 08:00.
Line out the door at 09:00.
It has never been like this.
It was dark......
The polling place I use is swamped, still. It was a long line at 7:15 am (my own fault for not getting there before the doors opened) and again about an hour ago, and again about ten minutes ago. Not a lot of Obama signs on my street, a big change from 2004 — in fact, in this block, there’s just one. Romney signs here and there, but also, mostly a LOT of red “TAKE BACK OUR COUNTRY IN NOVEMBER” have been all over the place for months. And many of those appear with Pete Hoekstra signs.
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